Astronaut Ron Garan How can you not read a book that starts out, " I have wanted to write this book since returning to Earth from my first space mission in 2008 "? Well, that's exactly how astronaut Ron Garan 's new book, The Orbital Perspective , starts. Garan is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA (extravehicular activity) during four spacewalks. For Garan, living on the International Space Station (ISS) was a transformative experience – one he believes that can help us solve the world’s toughest crises. Though exploration in space led Garan to many new frontiers; perhaps his most important discovery came in the form of a parallel reality . On Earth, the former US fighter pilot during the Cold War fought the Russians; in space, the US and Russia worked as allies. As he took in a spectacular view of the planet from the ISS, Garan...
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